FC Shakhtar Donetsk

FC Shakhtar Donetsk is a Ukrainian professional football club from Donetsk, founded on 24 May 1936. Shakhtar played in the very first Soviet football competitions and was one of the oldest clubs in Ukraine, and it won the Soviet Cup in both 1961 and 1962. The club became the most popular football club in Ukraine, and the exclusive favorite of those living in the east. As the result of the Donbass War in 2014, FC Shakhtar Donetsk moved to Lviv, and it then moved to Kharkiv in 2017 with its headquarters in Kiev.